Unwind Theme Essay

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In the book Unwind by Neal Shusterman the is a plethora of themes that occur in the book, but one of the theme that stand out to me in this book is to step out of your comfort zone.This is shown a plethora of time in the book and help some of characters keep their life. In Unwind in my opinion the strongest theme is to step out of your comfort zone. I will be showing multiple reason why this is the strongest occurring theme in Unwind.

The first reason of why to step out of your comfort zone is the main theme in the book Unwind is because in chapter one Connor the main character is a Unwind which basically he will get murdered and his body will be dismantle for other humans who needs body parts. Connor decides to go AWOL and leave the town so he doesn’t end up dieing. Connor goes on side of his comfort zone, and hops on to 18 wheelers. Therefore he ends up saving his own life.“What do you mean ‘change’? Dying is a little bit more than ‘change’” Connor knows he will have to go outside his comfort zone to save his life. If it wasn’t for Connor stepping outside his comfort zone he would have been dismantled and dead. This is why you should always step out of your comfort zone. …show more content…

Risa is getting driven to a Unwind center to be killed, but as two kids start fighting on the bus the bus nearly hits a person and crashes. Risa has an opportunity to run and step out of her comfort zone and she did. “ The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state.” This quote means that for Risa to stay alive is for her to take a risk and step out of her comfort zone and run away when the opportunity is handed to her. This is another reason why one of the main themes in the book is to step outside of your comfort

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